Coming Along

Things are coming along nicely.  There have been a few additional surprise delays that have the potential to throw off our carefully constructed schedule.  Mainly delays that could cause our inspections to take a day or two longer than expected.  We're trying to get it right the first time now rather than doing what we think will pass and correct it later if asked.

The light fixutres are up and the A/C registers are in and the walls are mostly painted.  It really is starting to look like a bar!  And our LED pool table light looks quite nice!

The insurance adjuster has been out for the vandalism and I believe we're only waiting for a final determination which I expect to be favorable.

This weekend, we have friends coming by to help paint the rest of the place.

Next week, there's more clean up work to do and orders to place and inspectors to call and a bunch of small touches to finish up the job.  And I think you'll find all the diamond plate you see on our sites will begin to make a little more sense.  (It looks pretty darn cool if ya ask me!)

(And, ya know what?  I kinda envy you guys (and gals) who will walk into the bar and get the impact of all these changes all at once.  I've (obviously) been living with it for months and months so I've seen it change over time.  We really think what we've done with the place will impress you.  At least we hope it does.)

Power UP!

Another tiny bit of progress.  Karl tells me we now have electricity supplied by PG & E and no longer have to rely on generators at the bar to do work!

The new electrician is also at the bar working and we should have the roof and insulation inspected later today!

After so many delays and so much time in the past just watching nothing getting done this is starting to move quickly.

Our Trump Impersonation

After a particularly serious lapse of judgement on the part of our electrical contractor which caused an unconscionable security problem and combined with a near complete lack of the ability to communicate with each each other (we have a very hard time understanding him; English is not his native language) we had to fire him yesterday.

Karl had been doing most of the talking with this guy until yesterday so I didn't fully understand the language barrier.  His employee was able to understand him just fine (employee's native language is English) and we were dealing with him most of the time.  We learned yesterday that Contractor had fired Employee the day before.  Employee had been working with Contractor for about three years and the firing apparently came from out of the blue.

We would really have rather kept working with the same guy.  But, after a conversation that lasted at least 5 minutes (if not longer) and I still was unsure whether or not PG & E even knew we existed--much less was coming out to hook up our power to the pole--and apparently talking in circles Karl and I decided we didn't want to continue with Contractor without Employee.

On the Plus Side....

It looks like we may have temporary electrical service sometime this week; it depends on how quickly PG & E can make it out to connect things up.  And that will make construction work go a lot easier for everybody.

And, Jeff of Club Legends stopped by with a small entourage to take a look at the place.  (I assume he was driving by and saw Karl's car.)  He had some excellent advice that might save us a bunch of money.  (Which may go a good distance to making up for the costs of completing Demo Guy's work.)